Your first priority is truly your addiction.

I have a very addictive personality. I thank God all the time that I never got into drugs when I was younger, because I would probably still be hooked on them – I’m just that kind of person. But I have to be very careful not to let other things hook me as well. The word addiction is from the Latin, and literally means “to give over, surrender.” Broadly used, addiction could apply to anything you have given yourself over or surrendered to. In this regard, whatever is truly your first priority is your addiction. We are all addicts in this sense.

Genesis 19:30-38
“Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world. 32 Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father."  33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.   34 So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, "Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."   35 So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 36 In this way both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.”

In the case of Lot’s daughters, we find they are addicted to fear. It is fear that drives them to do this universally repulsive act, in order to preserve their family line. The rest of the family, including Lot’s wife, had perished in Sodom, and now these two virginal daughters are scrabbling around in a cave with their father, who up until this point had been a wealthy man. Having lost everything, Lot’s daughters turn in desperation to incest in order to produce not only male heirs, but also someone to take care of them when they became old.

Our addictions enslave us, they can drive us to do foolish and destructive things. And it is not a matter of curing our addictions, which we are unable to do, but rather shift them so that they become beneficial to us rather than harmful. God has designed us to be addicted to him, He has designed us so that we go through horrendous withdrawal symptoms if we are separated from Him. By surrendering to His control over our lives, we receive what we truly need, rather than finding ourselves in a cave committing incest.